Extremes Quotes

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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was… — John Dryden
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was… — Nneka
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates. — Claire McCaskill
What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round… — Michele Bachmann
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. — Eugene Ionesco
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune… — Alfred Bester
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the… — William Graham Sumner
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is… — Kate Bush
I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president… — Harry Reid
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from… — Aristotle
You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a… — Maurice Samuel
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry

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